Summary: Fikret Abdic, the former leader of a Bosniak breakaway statelet called the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war. He was convicted of organising and running concentration camps and prison camps in Velika Kladusa, in which 5,000 people were detained and some of them forced to join paramilitary forces, between September 1993 and August 1995.